What were the five biggest stories of last year? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2024 announced (April 18) @AuManufacturing’s Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2024 were announced to a full room at Cockle Bay Wharf’s rooftop L’Aqua venue. After a five-month campaign and the assessments of…
The South Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and Minister for Energy and Mining Tom Koutsantonis has held an ‘urgent meeting’ with operators of the troubled Whyalla steelworks, emerging confident that the blast furnace would be up and running within a week. However Koutsantonis has ‘grave concerns’ about unpaid bills, according to media reports, with…
Steelmaker GFG Alliance’s executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta put on a brave face in South Australia this week, vowing the company’s troubled Whyalla blast furnace would produce again and that the site had a future making green steel. Gupta travelled to Whyalla in South Australia to inspect repair work on the blast furnace which has been…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Magnetite secures Japanese support for green iron project Magnetite Mines has secured Japanese financial support for its plans to develop a massive green iron ore mine and potential green iron or steel production near Port Pirie in South Australia. The…
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen has wasted little time in visiting one of the key sites proposed for a nuclear power station by the Coalition – Port Augusta in South Australia. But Bowen was not there to spruik nuclear power, but to highlight the green cement and green concrete plant being…
South Australia has secured federal funding to back solar PV and wind projects and become 100 percent renewably powered before 2030. This would be a historic development, as so far only hydro power based jurisdictions have been able to achieve 100 percent renewable power. The state signed a final Renewable Energy Transformation Agreement to ensure…
Magnetite Mines has secured Japanese financial support for its plans to develop a massive green iron ore mine and potential green iron or steel production near Port Pirie in South Australia. The company has signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement with JFE Shoji Australia, a subsidiary of JFE Shoji Corporation and part of the JFE…
By Asma Aziz, Edith Cowan University Keeping the lights on in Australia is a complex task. Enough capacity must be ensured everywhere in the country, at every moment. Surplus in one location won’t solve shortages in another, unless we have the transmission infrastructure to transmit electricity between them. The transmission network largely consists of high-voltage…
Steelmaker GFG Alliance’s Sanjeev Gupta has told staff that the company which operates the Whyalla steelworks was ‘very confident’ faulty furnace at the site would be restored ‘imminently’. However this could be as late as next month according to local trade unions. Gupta said via video: “The last couple of months have probably been amongst…
Iron ore project developer Iron Road has extended its Strategic Framework Agreement with Amp Energy which aims to develop a massive green hydrogen and ammonia project alongside its operations at Cape Hardy in South Australia. The two companies have extended their agreement and associated exclusivity period by three months to 12 April 2024, to provide…
